(07-03-2022, 02:42 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: [ -> ]That's the key part of your statement and why I mentioned it. Kyrie usually does not play. Neither does Anthony Davis. Lebron is turning 39 this year, and when the trade for Kyrie goes through, the Lakers will once again be a trio+a bunch of vet mins.
Do we seriously expect Kyrie+AD+LBJ be able to play 35+ mins a night for 82 games and be competitive in the playoffs?
Kyrie not playing is still better than Westbrook playing. Westbrook no longer has anything to offer. But Kyrie is still in his prime, is healthy, and the COVID politics are dissipating. It’s an all upside move for the Lakers. They would be giving up practically nothing for him and they’d be in the same boat with the rest of the roster either way.
(07-03-2022, 02:54 PM)HoosierDaddyKid Wrote: [ -> ]if you're speaking of DeAndre Jordan, he signed a one year deal with Denver. Don't know the status of Boogie Cousins.
My bad, I looked at last season data
(07-03-2022, 03:00 PM)ThisIStheYear Wrote: [ -> ]Kyrie not playing is still better than Westbrook playing
I think this was meant as a piece of hyperbolic humor, but honestly...I think there's some truth to it, lol.
(07-03-2022, 03:42 PM)Kammrath Wrote: [ -> ]https://twitter.com/TheNBACentral/status...7519887363
My buddy is a massive GSW fan and brought up this idea when the KD trade demand broke. It's hard to argue against GSW being able to return the best assets. KD only being able to win with Curry would probably eat is soul.
(07-03-2022, 10:32 AM)HoosierDaddyKid Wrote: [ -> ]Providing he behaves. Lebron can get him to do that.
LeBron loves Luka so I'm sure he'll give Kyrie a call and tell him to be on his best behavior during his time in Dallas.
(07-03-2022, 12:45 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: [ -> ]Kyrie Irving with a 38 year old candidate for greatest player of all time, an icon of success and respect in the African American community, soon to be one of the first black billionaires, if he isn't already? That has a chance of working. I STILL would be worried if I were the Lakers, but their franchise player is 38 - they really need to make desperate moves.
Kyrie Irving with a 23 year old Eastern European player with whom he has nothing in common and probably doesn't really respect all that much? Bad, bad idea. I mean, I am 100% positive that Irving respects Luka's game, but come on...he's still a kid. And, playing in DFW? Kyrie? I'd say you're going to have a bored and disgruntled Irving before Christmas, and he'll find a way to completely let the team down by missing a ton of games, as he has for basically the last 5 seasons. There is NO chance of Luka, DFS, Kleber or any of Dallas' team-first guys influencing him, while there is significant risk, imo, of Irving having a negative influence on Dallas' 23-year old superstar, who is likely still extremely impressionable in some ways.
Oh, yeah...they'd give up assets to do this act of terrorism to their own team. And oh yeah, it's 99% sure to last only one season, at the most. They'd wind up without Irving, without what it cost to acquire him and without a championship to show for it. Worse off than they are right now, with Doncic a year older and with a lot of new ideas.
I cannot stress enough how bad of an idea I believe this to be. Irving is an INCREDIBLE player, no doubt. Please, Mavs, I am begging you to let him get his attention somewhere else.
Agree with everything you have written above. However Cuban is still the owner. He is infatuated with star power than do what it takes to patiently build a solid team.
(07-03-2022, 01:42 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: [ -> ]I know this guy isn't really legit, and this tweet reads like Dallas is involved in the KD situation, somehow, which probably means he's confused, at the very least. Still, could be about Irving (please no) or could be about some moving piece of the KD situation (like Joe Harris or Simmons). Just throwing it out there because things are slow today and I'm bored.
https://twitter.com/LegionHoopsRoss/status/1543625306547838976?s=20&t=1rkgVg_TEqmIJhQGKTv4VA
The guy who you quoted here, saying "Sources: Regarding a Kevin Durant trade -- the Nets are informing teams to get creative & add teams into a potential trade to fully maximize the return for KD. Nets re-touched base with a few teams over the last 24 hours -- Boston, Memphis, Dallas & Toronto" is the same guy who told us a week ago that Dragic-to-the-Mavs was a done deal. As it turns out, that was BS.
His timeline is just a slew of obviousness, of what has happened (as just reported by the main outlets), plus a few supposed insider or scoop-type posts that tend to be wrong.
Take all that as you wish.
(07-03-2022, 06:44 PM)F Gump Wrote: [ -> ]The guy who you quoted here, saying "Sources: Regarding a Kevin Durant trade -- the Nets are informing teams to get creative & add teams into a potential trade to fully maximize the return for KD. Nets re-touched base with a few teams over the last 24 hours -- Boston, Memphis, Dallas & Toronto" is the same guy who told us a week ago that Dragic-to-the-Mavs was a done deal. As it turns out, that was BS.
His timeline is just a slew of obviousness, of what has happened (as just reported by the main outlets), plus a few supposed insider or scoop-type posts that tend to be wrong.
Take all that as you wish.
Kind of what I suggested in the first line of my post.
Isaac Harris suggested that Coby White for Dwight Powell straight up might be a fallback for Dallas, at this point.
Would that satiate our blood lust?
(07-04-2022, 12:47 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: [ -> ]Coby White for Dwight Powell straight up
That would be a GREAT move.
(07-04-2022, 12:49 PM)Kammrath Wrote: [ -> ]That would be a GREAT move.
If that's all they do, though, would it be enough?
(07-04-2022, 12:51 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: [ -> ]If that's all they do, though, would it be enough?
If necessary. I trust that they are looking for some radical roster changing moves, but you dont make a move just to make one.
(07-04-2022, 12:47 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: [ -> ]Isaac Harris suggested that Coby White for Dwight Powell straight up might be a fallback for Dallas, at this point.
Would that satiate our blood lust?
I imagine we would have to send something else out with that? At least a second. Coby White would be more useful than Powell, but man he is a sieve on defense.